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A modest WW2 Resistance hero and the V-1 flying bomb, at Val Ygot

V2 rocket Normandy

First published here 2018 In the summer of 1943, a middle aged Frenchman in blue overalls pushed a wheelbarrow past German sentries into a construction site at Bonnetot, between Dieppe and Rouen in Normandy. The man, Michel Hollard, did not look extraordinary but he was.  Audacious and brave, Michel’s actions that day

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